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1 Franc - Chambre de Commerce de Boulogne-sur-Mer 62
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Boulogne-sur-Mer |
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| Year | 1914 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE BOULOGNE-SUR-MER Délibération de la Chambre du 14 Août 1914 Emission de bons de monnaie divisionnaire autorisée par décision de M. le Ministre du Commerce en date du 20 août 1914 UN FRANC Toute imitation frauduleuse des bons de monnaie émis par la Chambre de Commerce sera poursuivie en vertu de la loi. Le Trésorier Le Président de la Chambre de Commerce B 1. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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French chambres de commerce were authorized to issue emergency fractional notes in August 1914 as the mobilization crisis drained metallic coin from circulation almost overnight. Boulogne-sur-Mer, as a major Channel port, felt that drain acutely — the volume of troop and supply movement through the town in those first weeks made small-denomination liquidity an immediate practical problem, not an abstract monetary one.
The JP#31-12 reference places this within the Pirot-Jodet corpus of French nécessité issues. Watermarked paper was the primary anti-counterfeiting measure for most chamber issues of this period, security printing being both expensive and slow to arrange under wartime conditions.